Urban Performances: Artistic Form and Urban Interventions

Contemporery Urban Development and Sustainable Urban Form

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...

Technology and Urban Form: A Philosophical and Historical Perspective

Urban form has undergone tremendous changes throughout history. These changes have stemmed from various causes. Technology has been one of the most influential forces in changing the face of cities, leaving different marks on the city form. In fact, technology has gained an increasingly more important and integrative role in bringing changes to the urban form. In addition, recent plethora of de...

Cooperative Design for Artistic Performances

ALTERNE (Alternative Realities in Networked Environments) platform aims at providing a high level of integration between various techniques supporting mixed reality, graphics, interaction and behavioral models. This paper focuses on two collaborative aspects the platform provides. First, it contains a virtual object repository, which allows artists to share their ideas and support collaboration...

Urban Morphology and Energy Performances: Investigating the Impacts of Urban Openness Factor on Theoretical Energy Demand, Case Study: Isfahan Urban Morphological Types

Raster analysis of urban form

A new paradigm for investigating the environment consequences of urban texture is proposed. Using raster-based models and software algorithms derived from image processing the authors develop efficient methods of measuring geometric parameters and predicting radiation exchange. The possibilities of generating synthetic urban textures and of integrating cellular automata are explored. Results su...